Interviews
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Pleasure and Pain in Guanajuato: Amat Escalante’s The Untamed is an Unusual Sort of Creature Feature
Three years ago, acclaimed Mexican director Amat Escalante and I sat down over coffee in Downtown Los Angeles to discuss the political... -
Threads of Melancholy: In Ensemble Piece Person to Person, Dustin Guy Defa Proves a Tonal Prowess
With his new ensemble comedy, Person to Person, Dustin Guy Defa seems poised to break through to a wider cultural consciousness outside... -
Bear Hug: Brigsby Bear, From Dave McCary and Kyle Mooney, is an Unabashed Love Letter to Filmmaking With Friends
I had a feeling I’d like Brigsby Bear. As a comedy fan, how could I not? I’ve been a fan of director... -
Endless Poetry: Alejandro Jodorowsky on the Freedom of Losing Money, and Making Movies at 88
Absent from the limelight for over 20 years, the revered visionary, artistic shaman and extreme multi-hyphenate Alejandro Jodorowsky chose to step away... -
Brothers Grimm in Watercolor, Breathing: Sébastien Laudenbach on Animating The Girl Without Hands
French animator Sébastien Laudenbach’s ethereal first feature The Girl Without Hands, based upon the Brothers Grimm fairy tale of the same title,... -
Nailing the Low-Budget English Period Piece: Director William Oldroyd on His Startling Debut, Lady Macbeth
Lady Macbeth is a thriller masquerading as a period piece, and first-time feature director William Oldroyd has reinvented the genre by injecting... -
Luc Besson’s Technology Allergy, Squid Superpowers and a Really Complicated Market: Inside Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is a longtime passion project of French director-writer Luc Besson, known for his imaginative... -
Lipstick Under My Burkha: Alankrita Shrivastava’s Celebration of Female Desire Survives a Ban, Opens in India
For the past decade, the independent film scene in India has been thriving—in particular, movies that pick at the ancient thorns of... -
Medicinal Moviemaking: To Document a Spiritual Quest, Reality of Truth Zooms In On Shrooms and Other Psychedelics
“And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing,... -
They’re Just Like Us: Jeff Baena on Adapting a 14th-century Text for Modern Audiences with The Little Hours
Writer-director Jeff Baena didn’t have to look too far for inspiration for The Little Hours—just 14th-century Italy. The film, which is the...
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Inside the Issue: Distribution
Your Key to Distribution Success: Get Keyed in to Key Art, and You’re On Your Way to an Instantly Iconic Movie
Think about some of the most famous posters ever produced: Jaws, Scarface, Taxi Driver, The Shining, Ghostbusters, E.T., The Godfather. What do they have in common? To...2Inside the Issue: Festivals
deadCenter Film Festival 2017: Oklahoma City Is the Biggest Star Of This Consistently Great Event
Film festivals are as good as their programmers and audiences, and the deadCenter film festival has an abundance of excellence in both. From the very first...Inside the Issue: Producing
What Investors Want to Hear: Here Are the Things You Need to Be Telling Potential Financiers In Your Pitch
There are as many different ways to get funding as there are movies made, but the one thing all of those stories have in common is...6